I went to Prague expecting a smaller Vienna. I had been to Vienna before, both cities spent centuries under the Habsburgs, and the comparison seemed safe. It wasn’t. Vienna’s centre is formal. …
Five days is the first itinerary length where Paris stops being a race. There’s time for the big museums on separate days, for long café stops, and for the two day trips …
Most visitors to Paris have time for one or two art museums, not all of them. The three they usually choose between are the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de …
My first big Paris trip taught me more than any guidebook. Some lessons came easily, like how good the metro is. Others came the hard way, like leaving Versailles after a few …
Lupin turned Paris into a heist map. Netflix’s French series follows Assane Diop, played by Omar Sy, whose father was wrongly accused of stealing a necklace that once belonged to Marie Antoinette, …
We visited Versailles on a guided tour from Paris, and for a first visit I highly recommend one. We went inside the palace, and it was every bit as opulent as its …
Two days in Paris won’t cover everything. The Louvre alone could fill both of them. What two days can do is give a first-time visitor the highlights in a sensible order, with …
I have seen Toronto from the top of 1,776 stairs and from a picnic lawn across the harbour. In between, I have walked under sharks at the foot of the CN Tower, …
We arrived at the Shangri-La in Toronto on a snowy December night, and the entrance alone sets high expectations. Rising, a huge stainless steel tree branch covered in a flock of birds, …
I was lucky with my timing. On the day I visited the Royal Ontario Museum, Earth: An Immersive Journey was on in the Philosopher’s Gallery on Level 1, and it turned out …
On Boxing Day, with snow coming down over University Avenue, we went for brunch at Cafe Landwer, just across from the Shangri-La. Friends in Toronto had told me about it, and one …